Arabic vocabulary
نِيرَانِهِمtheir fires in Arabic
نِيرَانِهِم is how you say “their fires” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَجَعَلْتُ أَصْطَلِي مَعَهُمْ عَلَى نِيرَانِهِم
So I began to warm myself with them on their fires.
نِيرَانِهِم — their fires. This noun carries an owner-ending meaning 'their', so one word equals 'their fires', and it sits in the genitive forced by the preposition 'on'. The attached possessor reaches back to the people just mentioned. Arabic glues the owner onto the noun rather than using a separate word.
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